Today we are thrilled to announce the commercial availability of
transloadit.com.

If you have a web (or mobile) application that needs file uploading you should consider integrating transloadit.
Transloadit will handle the upload process, resizing of images, encoding of videos, and final storage of your content on Amazon S3 for you.

Our plans start at $19 / month which includes
3.5 GB of usage. This is enough for ~72 video encodings or ~717 image resizes
per month.

This project has been almost two years in the making, with over 150 people
participating in testing various versions. The version we are shipping now
has already executed 55.000 internal jobs, each spawning 2-5 command
line scripts on our servers.

We are also one of the first commercial software / infrastructure as a service product
built on node.js. After experimenting with various
technologies, we found it to be the perfect fit for our uploading and processing
requirements.

Another thing we are very proud of is the ~95% of test coverage of the service's
code base. We have an extensive suite of unit, integration and system tests
that have already proven incredibly reliable for detecting problems, be it in
our code, or changes to our stack.

If you are a long time reader of this blog, we would feel incredibly grateful
if you would spread the word about our service to your boss, co-workers and
geek-friends.

Otherwise we would be very happy to hear as much feedback, ideas and questions
as you can come up with!

--fg

PS: I also want to use this opportunity to thank my co-founders Tim and Kevin
for being the best partners in this business I can imagine. I love you guys.

Looks interesting... I'd love some more insight on the infrastructure and technology behind the project (besides S3 and node.js)!

I love your robots and the simplistic design - although I don't fancy the logo much.
My initial reaction is that the pricing is fair, but the $3 pricetag (at least) on the extra gigabytes seem a bit steep to me. Otherwise - brilliant service, and I look forward to you adding more bots (although I don't have any worker ideas at the moment.

Philip: thanks for the feedback! How much $ / GB would seem fair to you? We definitely have some room with our margins right now, but our main concern at this point is becoming a profitable bootstrapped service so we can dedicate as much time to improving the service & supporting our customers as possible.

We'll do more posts on our infrastructure on here soon!

JBland said
on Jul 14, 2010:

Is there a possibility of pay-as-you-go ? im developing a site which will likely take 6 or so months before volume is at a rate to justify a subscription.

JBland: Yes. I'll contact you at the email you made the comment with so we can arrange a custom setup for you!

JBland said
on Jul 14, 2010:

Felix,
nothing special to do. The way other services do is to have an AWS like model for transcoding. A user preloads an account with a dollar amount and the account is debited whenever processing occurs.

JBland: We might offer a plan without a monthly base fee in the future.

A credit card will always be required however. Paypal can't be trusted and manual payments are a lot of friction for a service like ours.

Let me know if you have more ideas : ).

Alan Blount said
on Jul 16, 2010:

Sounds great!

Would you be willing to backend on rackspace's cloud files instead of S3?

I too would be interested in a pay-as-you-go model as our needs are fairly light (sporadic) on the processing/uploading but I'd love to send you business and I'm sure your transcoding scripts/setup are better than mine.

I'd love to read a story of what your infrastructure is and how the pieces fit together sometime, if you felt like sharing.

The pay-as-you-go plan is not fully decided on yet. The next plan change we're rolling out next week will introduce a free plan that is meant for testing & development. But we'll keep tweaking our offering until it makes the market happy : ).

About our infrastructure, I'll definitely do a post about this on the transloadit blog soon.

--fg

Joyce van Zonneveld said
on Jul 18, 2010:

Congratulations Felix, Tim and Kevin!! It looks very nice!, and i hope it will be a great succes! Good luck in the future!
Joyce (Kevin's sister)